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Show 'POP' ANSON TO RUN GOLF CLUB Baseball Veteran Admits Lure of Ancient Game Holds Him Fast CHICAGO, Jan. 27 "From baseball! ! chief to golf club manager," might I be tho title to an autobiography of 'Adrian C Anson, for he signed up i today as chief director of a golf club, 'the Dixmoor, which IS to set a new istyle in golfdom. After many years on th diamond both as player and manager, Captain Anson, popularly known ts "Pop." one I day allowed his enormous form to be led to a golf llnkH and there was be- gulled into swinging a club at a wee white ball on the first te lie found the hall at first as elusive .is a swift 1 double curve, hut eventually ho hit It a healthv swat. As tho ball sailed away like a feather In a breeze, the baseball ilnn ffu Fmliten with golf fever and became be-came a confirmed golfer. Asked a few o-.irs ago which he liked better golf or baseball, he replied: ' Well I would rather play baseball ihan Fee a golf match, but 1 would much rather play golf than see a DOSSr ball game." And so. in the winter and the summer, the captain swings his Herculean frame over the public links at Jackson park, clad in knickers und plaving a tolerably good game. And now, in order to be inseparable from the llnk.s. he has undertaken to manage the IMxmoor club, where members will reduce their annual dues by allowing the public to play tit a daily fee. except on Saturdays, Sundays Sun-days and holidays. Those days nrc sacred CO members, who export 16 hav. 1 the luxury of a private club at less than half the expense of moat clUbe. |